Search Results: Authors starting with G from Unsworth's Antiquarian Booksellers

Londini [London: ] Impensis R. Gosling, 1722. Large paper copy. Folio, pp. [ii], xxxv, [i], 106, [xxvi], 286, [xxx] + folding engraved map and 15 other engraved plates (7 folding). Lacking the list of subscribers leaf. Title and many pages in red and black. Spotted and lightly browned. Early 19th century marbled boards, scuffed, with spine renewed in half reversed calf by John Henderson c.1980. The Bowyer ledgers show 50 large paper copies were printed, of this last significant publication by Roger Gale (1672-1744), the eldest son of the antiquary Thomas Gale. The text is "a twelfth-century register of the honour of Richmond from the Cotton Library, accompanied by a long appendix of important early charters. It was published in 1722 under the auspices of the Society of Antiquaries, of which he was the first vice-president" (ODNB). ESTC T150024.

London: Oxford University Press for The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1956. 8vo., pp. xxvi, 289. Numerous b/w illustrations to text. towards rear. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Without dust-jacket. Moderate signs of use, good. "This book belongs to the British Broadcasting Corporation Library" ink-stamped to front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers, "611" in white to spine, accession details stamped to verso of title-page.

London: HarperPress, 2010. First edition. 8vo, pp. [xv], 957, with illustrations. Slight toning, else very good. Hardback, blue cloth, spine lettered in light blue, dust-jacket, upper edge a little creased, but still very good.

New York: Pegasus Books, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 356 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: quarter black cloth over cream boards, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a single black ink remainder line to bottom edge and a hint only of shelf-dust, otherwise a fine copy.

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1651. Editio Nova. 12mo. [48], 498, [124]. Small clean tear to lower blank margin of F10, another three on K12, V3-4 touching text. Contemporary vellum over boards, yapp edges, title inked to spine (modern), all edges sprinkled blue. Spine little rubbed. Ex-libris of Rudolph Apfelbeck 1883 to ffep. 'The first two editions from the Elzevir press [of which this is the first] were carefully published by J.F. Gronovius.' (Dibdin) 'Fort jolie et qui passe pour tres correcte' (Willems) Dibdin I, 340; Pokel, 101; Schweiger II, 378; Willems, 1127.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Cornelium Boutesteyn & Johannem du Vivie, 1706. 4to, pp. [xxxvi], 903, [lxv], including engraved frontispiece. Title-page in red and black with vignette, woodcut head-pieces and initials. Title a bit thumbed, intermittent slight mainly marginal browning or spotting, lower outer blank corner of 5Z2 and 5F4 (blank) torn, small paper flaw to same corner of 5Z4. Contemporary vellum, blind-stamped to a panel design, blind-stamped lozenge-shaped centrepiece to covers, raised bands, title inked to spine. A bit dust-soiled, upper joint minimally splitting at foot. Near contemporary annotations to a couple of leaves. One of the best quarto variorum editions of the classics, highly praised by Harwood: 'This edition has much literary merit [...] the notes of other critics are selected with judgement, and the explanatory remarks of Gronovius must give every scholar the most exalted idea in his singular erudition'. Dibdin specifies that it contains 'the entire… Read More

Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1992. 2 vols. 8vo., pp. ix, 714; [iv], 718-1202. Pink paperbacks, spines slightly faded. Very minor shelf wear, a very good clean set.

London: John Murray, 1971. 4to. (280 x 230 mm), pp. 232 + plates in colour and b/w. Colour frontispiece. Hardback: green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board, very good. Lacks dust-jacket. Originally published in German in 1957.

University of Toronto Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 369. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A hint of use and dust, very good. In the series: 'Toronto Italian Studies'.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 256. Illustrations to text. Hardback: white cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1953. First edition. 8vo, pp. [xi], 229, with illustrated frontispiece and photographic illustrations. The odd spot, a very good copy. Cloth, spine gilt, a few spots, dust-jacket, a little marginal tearing.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2013. First American edition. 8vo., pp. x, 288 + 30 colour plates. Maps. Hardback: half black cloth-backed brown boards, spine silver-lettered. Dust-jacket. Unread: page-edges slightly dusted, otherwise as new. First published in the UK, also in 2013.

Firle, Sussex: Caliban Books, 1980. First edition thus, second impression. 8vo., pp. xxxii, 184, [vi (publisher's ads.)]. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, bottom corners lightly bumped, top edge dusted, still very good. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, creased along edges with small closed tears along top, still good. This edition, with an introduction by Peter Razzell and text abridged and modernised, first published 1979.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2000. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 178. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black and green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use, still very good.

(London:) Charles Adams, 1654. 12mo., pp. [xciv], 86. Latin text and English translation on facing pages, the latter verso. Some light dust soiling, heavier on title and verso of last leaf, browning mostly to margins and occasional spots. 19th century half calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco label. Joints and extremities rubbed, small repair at head and foot. 20th century inscription to front pastedown, later monogram RC inked to title. The first edition in English of this poem on hunting by a contemporary of Virgil and Ovid. The translator's commentary includes chapters on "the styles of hunting different from the English, both antique and forreigne" and "the modern authors who have written upon this subject." The first edition in Latin had been published in Lyon by Sebastian Gryphius in 1537. Wing G1581; ESTC R1966; Schwerdt I, p.217.

Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2019. 8vo., pp. x, 171. Hardback: laminated boards. Unused: as new. In the series: Foundations.

London: The Hambledon Press. 1992 8vo., pp. xii, 230. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Very light shelf-wear with a little creasing to jacket, a touch of dusting to edges: a near-fine copy.

Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing, 2005. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 246 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A touch of dust, jacket lightly creased to edges: still a very good copy.

Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1984. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, jacket price-clipped, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "January 2003" ink-inscribed above.

Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1979. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, fine. Dust-jacket, lettering to spine faded, light shelf-wear, a little creased to edges with a couple of little nicks, otherwise very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to half-title, with "January 2003" ink-inscribed above.